In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium sits among devo...1 picture

In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium sits among devotees inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival

In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium sits among devotees inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival. The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whiskey,...More

In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium sits among devotees inside a shrine...In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium sits among devotees inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival. The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whiskey, part of an age old ritual to honour Myanmar's spirit guardian of drunkards and gamblers. Every year thousands of people pour into a small village southwest of Mandalay for a two-week festival, many packed into boats clutching bags of food and bedding or pulling up on rickety old bullock carts. / AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THULessMore